La P’tite Lilie

(Cavalcanti, 1927) Music by Darius Milhaud.

Based on a song of the same title about a young, orphaned factory girl, who meets a man at a dance who convinces her to quit her job and become a prostitute and is murdered by him after she tries to stop.

Performing forces
Minimum
44 players (strings: 7,7,6,5,4; flute/pic, oboe, clarinet I & II, bassoon, 2 trumpets, 2 Fr. horns, trombone, harp, piano, 2 percussion, tympani.)
RehearsalsOne 2 ½ hour rehearsal with orchestra
One 2 ½ hour technical rehearsal with film
One 2 1/2 hour dress rehearsal with orchestra and film
Performance time40 minutes
Film speed22.05 frames per second in Europe
Film sourceM. Pierre Braunberger, Paris, Les films du jeudi, filmsdujeudi@wanadoo.fr